For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18
Jack Graham recently shared this story. He heard a man who was the head of a Christian orphanage in Kentucky talk about his charges who are all mentally handicapped.
We are all imperfect especially in our physical and mental worlds. One of our beloved brothers responded to my recent request for prayer for my knee with a potent reminder of this with these words: “Remember that, in the end, our flesh counts for naught. As we struggle and contend with the flesh daily, we must take care to remember that our weakness and suffering are precious, indeed, drawing us more closely to our loving Father and the flock. It is in our sufferings that we are more closely able to feel and understand the things going on in the lives of our precious families; both at home and extended.
This is a day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it, my brother!”
It is important to rejoice in the present day with it’s handicaps and problems. We have much to be joyous about now. But it’s also important to be like those precious children and have a sense of the soon to come return of Jesus and our restoration into all we were created to be.
Look up and be blessed. Our deliverance is nigh.
Nick
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